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Fight­ing Back: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force
Craig Weiss
Jef­frey Weiss
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Mup­pets in Moscow: The Unex­pect­ed Crazy True Sto­ry of Mak­ing Sesame Street in Russia
Natasha Lance Rogoff
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Bro­ken Promis­es: The Sto­ry of a Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in Germany
Bon­nie Suchman
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Jews in the Gar­den: A Holo­caust Sur­vivor, the Fate of His Fam­i­ly, and the Secret His­to­ry of Poland in World War II
Judy Rakowsky
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Nav­i­gat­ing the Boom/​Bust Cycle: An Entre­pre­neur’s Sur­vival Guide
Mur­ray Sabrin
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The Autumn Ghost: How the Bat­tle Against a Polio Epi­dem­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ized Mod­ern Med­ical Care
Han­nah Wunsch
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Vio­lins and Hope: From the Holo­caust to Sym­pho­ny Hall
Daniel Levin
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Eng­land’s Jews: Finance, Vio­lence, and the Crown in the Thir­teenth Century
John Tolan
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From Jerusalem to Del­hi, through Persia
Susan Adel­man
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Mur­der­abil­ia: A His­to­ry of Crime in 100 Objects
Harold Schechter
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The Cig­ar Fac­to­ry of Isay Rot­ten­berg: The Hid­den His­to­ry of a Jew­ish Entre­pre­neur in Nazi Germany
Robert Roten­berg
Essay

What Kind of a Name is Osnos?

Peter Osnos
August 30, 2021
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Irma Stern and the Racial Para­dox of South African Mod­ern Art: Audac­i­ties of Color
LaN­i­tra M. Berger
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Bab­ka, Boulou, & Blintzes: Jew­ish Choco­late Recipes from around the World
Michael Lev­en­thal
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War­saw Ghet­to Police: The Jew­ish Order Ser­vice dur­ing the Nazi Occupation
Katarzyna Person
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Alexan­der Hamil­ton and His Jew­ish Witnesses

Andrew Por­wanch­er
August 16, 2021
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